Packing-case



(No Model.)

G. W. BANKER.

' PAGKING'GASE- No. 423,547 Patented Mar. 18, 1890.

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GEORGE IV. BANKER, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

PACKING-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,547, dated March 18, 1890. Application filed December 9, 1889. Serial No. 333,059. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BANKER,

a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and- State of NewYork, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Packing-Cases, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in packing-cases of the class in which the covers are removable; and it consists in the manner of disposing and shaping the pieces of wood which constitute the cover in such manner-t-hat the cover proper is cleated, thus preventing it from splitting, and also fastening together the several pieces, if more than one, of which it may be formed; also, the handle-fastenings are availed of as means for uniting the cleat-piece and the cover proper;

also, the cleat-piece is so shaped at its ends as to fit snugly in diagonally-opposite corners of the case, and' thus stays the cover proper against edgewise blows and aids in holding it in place, and, also, there are provided, withoutlabor or expense, suitable recessed or unoccupied spaces on the under side of the cover into which the filling-nozzle and the spout of the can contained in the case may be received, thus avoiding the necessity for boringout such recesses in the cover, as heretofore done.

My cases are especially intended as packingcases for cans containing'oils or like goods, which cans fill the cases and are provided with two openings on their upper side, one of them being a filling-nozzle and the other the pouring-spout, and in order to utilize space and reduce the size of the case as much as possible these two nozzles or nozzle and spout are made flush with the upper edge of the case. Thus when the cover is put on they come into contact with its under side, or substantially into contact therewith, and the can is thus held rigidly within the case and prevented from moving therein.

In the drawings the same reference-letter are employed to'indicate the same parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 illustrates a vertical sect-ion of my improved packing-case on the line a: a: of

Fig. 2. Fig. 2 illustrates a top view of the can and case, the cover being removed. Fig. 3 illustrates a view of the under side of the and shows the method of employing it in connection with my improved cover.

A is the case. B is the canplaced therein.

0 is the filling-nozzle, and D is the pouring-spout. V

E is a handle by which the can may be lifted out from the case.

G is the cover proper.

H is the cleat-piece. The ends of the cleatpiece are cut pointedly, as" shown, the angle, if the case be square, being a right angle, and the cleat is so disposed relative to the cover that the ends coincide with the inside of diagonally-opposite corners of the case, and will fit within the case at these corners. The cleatpiece is so applied to the cover that it leaves vacant spaces or recesses H H on the under side of the cover, so that the handle of the can being turned down fiat the under side of the cover will rest upon the upper edge of the case, and thus be prevented from being.

crushed in by blows or pressure on top of it,

and the cleat will prevent it from splitting,-

since it runs across the grain of the cover, and if the cover be made of more than one piece of material the cleat will bind them together, and the endsof the cleat fitting into diagonally-opposite corners of the case the cover is braced 'bythe cleat against lateral blows, and the staples I, whichhold the coverthe central clinch-nails.

The fastening device shown in Fig. 4:. is

fully described in my Letters Patent dated- June 17, 1879, and numbered 216,497, and do not require special description here. Iuse 5 handle J in place, serve also to unite the'cleat to the cover, they taking the place of two of' two such fastenin gs, one on each opposite side in the manufacture of packing-cases of the kind shown. The amount of material required, the amount of labor, and the time of manufacture I believe to be less than have ever been attained before for acase having the same strength, utility, and capacity, and posto and fit in opposite corners or angles of the case, the cleat being of suchwidth as to leave 15 recesses on the under side of the cover, and a can within the case having its nozzle and spout arranged to fit in the recesses on each side of the cleat, substantially as set forth.

Signed at New York, in the county of New 20 York and State of New York, this 4th day of December, A. D. 1889.

GEO. W. BANKER.

Witnesses:

PHILLIPS ABBOTT, FREDERICK SMITH. 

